Immediate 2024-2025 Social Worker - Elementary School
Immediate 2024-2025 Social Worker - Elementary School
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Job Description
General responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Provide direct services to the school community including:
- Providing regular oneonone counseling or group counseling to students and families;
- Providing crisis intervention as needed;
- Managing tracking and documenting student interactions and counseling schedule;
- Setting goals with students and tracking progress towards those goals;
- Working directly with students to help them successfully work towards high school graduation college matriculation and selfsufficiency;
- Collaborating and communicating daily with supervisors colleagues and teachers to meet students needs.
Manage aspects of referral process for social services partnerships and special education services including:
- Provide support and documentation for all students with IEPs;
- Meet regularly with students who have mandated counseling on their IEPs;
- Conducting regular assessments of current and emerging student and family needs;
- Developing and maintaining partnerships with external agencies;
- Referring individuals and families to external resources and services and when necessary referring cases of suspected child abuse to the State Central Registry.
- Monitoring and facilitating the delivery of external resources and services;
- Administering records documentation and other compliance activities.
Design and coordinate student engagement family engagement and family education activities including:
- Home visits for newly enrolled and current students as appropriate;
- Workshops to educate families staff and/or students on specific issues;
- Support Principal Deans and teachers when discipline issues arise.
- Participate actively in department meetings faculty meetings and other meetings.
- Consult with the schools Student Response Teams to develop comprehensive supports and interventions to students who are presenting challenging behaviors.
- Share responsibility for gradelevel and schoolwide activities including chaperoning day and overnight trips.
- Provide recommendations to the staff and leadership team around approaches to working with struggling students.
- Implement and enhance the schools systems and culture by discussing character education with students.
- Meet with parents (English and Spanishspeaking) regularly regarding student issues.
- Establish a professional rapport and strong relationship with students staff and families.
- Display the highest ethical and professional behavior and confidentiality when working with students parents and staff.
- Ensure a safe positive environment in group and oneonone counseling sessions.
- Commit to professional growth.
Qualifications :
- Strong interpersonal skills that contribute to a collegial work environment and a healthy measure of the character traits we value: zest grit hope love social intelligence gratitude and a sense of humor.
- A passion for being part of a teamoriented missiondriven school culture
- Documented track record of personal and professional success
- Extensive knowledge of adolescent development
- Experience in therapeutic modalities related to children and families from the communities KIPP NYC serves including assessment and treatment of trauma
- Experience working within a school environment or extensive work with teenagers and young adults
- MSW or Masters degree in counselingrelated discipline
- Oral and written fluency in Spanish highly preferred
Additional Information :
Compensation and Benefits:
KIPP NYC offers a competitive salary ranging from $70829 $142270. Salaries are determined using an equitable compensation scale that accounts for years of experience relevant to the role NYS certification and licensure and longevity within the KIPP network. The KIPP NYC Recruitment Team will evaluate a candidates years of experience certification and longevity at point of hire to determine the step/level a new hire will be placed within our salary scale.
KIPP NYC offers a generous benefits package including but not limited to the following:
- Robust benefits that include medical dental and vision.
- Generous TimeOff including 5 school vacation weeks sick and personal days and an extended summer break.
- Up to 12 weeks 100% parental leave.
- Bright Horizon Backup Child and Elder care.
- Employer paid Life Insurance and Short term/Long term disability.
- Employee incentives including 8 Weeks paid Sabbatical after 10 years annual professional development funds and tuition reimbursement.
This description is intended to describe the type of work being performed by a person assigned to this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by the employee.
This role is based in NYC and will require travel to our schools. If you relocate outside of a commutable distance or out of the state of NY your employment will be subject to review which may include separation from KIPP NYC. It is important that you notify HR if you move or have plans to relocate.
KIPP NYC LLC does not offer visa sponsorship or work authorization.
KIPP NYC LLC is an antiracist organization that believes in the importance of being diverse equitable and inclusive. We are committed to creating a welcoming environment that includes employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving students and families throughout New York City. BIPOC women gender expansive LGBTQIA veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
KIPP NYC LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. KIPP NYC LLC is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
